worthiness
/ˈwəːðɪnəs
/noun [mass noun]
1The quality of being good enough; suitability: he demonstrates his worthiness to rule you proved your worthiness as a leader how do you go about assessing the worthiness of a book proposal?...
- The fight with Goliath is the culminating stage in this paideia, where David proves his worthiness to be king through his personal heroism.
- So I always try my best to prove my worthiness.
- She is beautiful but her worthiness as my mate is still very unclear.
1.1The quality of deserving attention or respect: an argument about the moral worthiness of the nation’s founders doubts about the worthiness of writing novels...
- He took the company from the bowels of serious worthiness to wowing the London literati with dynamic, subversive, well-produced books that echoed the counterculture bubbling under the historical granite of Edinburgh.
- Violet is a useful shade, as "it represents authority and depth of understanding, and is also is the colour of worthiness and dignity."
- A couple of statements are made to convince the audience of his worthiness of the medals collected.